Publications & Films

How to order:
Please make cheques payable to Safer Medicines Trust and send your order to:
Safer Medicines Trust, PO Box 122, Kingsbridge TQ7 9AX
Leaflets are free but we would really appreciate donations to cover the costs of printing and posting.

Leaflet

The focus of this leaflet is safety testing of new drugs, highlighting the dangers of using animals and the improvements in safety that could be acheived with more modern methods.
View a copy here (PDF)
Please order high quality copies from us for distribution.

 

Would you gamble with your health?

Our film, Safer Medicines, showcases some of the latest technologies that we believe could supplant animal tests in drug development to deliver safer drugs to patients, in less time and at less cost. Watch the 26 minute film, a 3 minute trailer and 4 minutes of its launch in the House of Commons.

Free but donations to cover postage greatly appreciated.

A Critical Look at Animal Experimentation

A Critical Look at Animal Experimentation

A booklet examining the impact of animal experimentation on research into cancer, AIDS, neurological disorders and others, as well as outlining more valid human-based methods of research.

Free but donations to cover postage greatly appreciated.
Available in PDF format.

A Critical Look at Animal Experimentation

Human tissues are invaluable for medical research –how can we make them more available?

Summary of the proceedings of a conference in the House of Lords 20 October 2009

Free but donations to cover postage greatly appreciated.
Available in PDF format.

View the conference presentations here…

A Critical Look at Animal Experimentation

Proceedings of the Speed and Safety in Drug Discovery Symposium

Available here or please contact us for hard copies, for which we need to charge £5 to cover postage.

View the conference presentations here…

Newsletters


Human-based Systems for Translational Research

Edited by Dr Robert Coleman and available in print or online. Written by worldwide experts within the many fields covered, each chapter can be purchased individually.
An essential text for researchers working in translational medicine in both industry and academia.
Brute Science: Dilemmas of Animal Experimentation

Brute Science: Dilemmas of Animal Experimentation

by Hugh LaFollette and Niall Shanks
Routledge 1997 (Philosophical Issues in Science Series)

A good but very academic book.

“This is as important a book in applied ethics as one can hope to find. It mounts an an impressive scientific and moral case against the current practice of animal experimentation, demanding that we either provide an adequate defense of that practice or radically change it.” – James P. Sterba (Philosophy, University of Notre Dame)

£10

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